This report summary by the Minnesota Council on Foundations highlights charitable giving trends of grantmakers, foundations and individuals in Minnesota in 2012 and 2013. We learn that individual giving has been rising consistently since 2009, however grantmakers gave less charitable donations in 2012 than they had in previous years. We also see that individuals make up over 70% of charitable giving annually and that grant makers and individuals alike consistently give most to  Education.

The Minnesota Council on Foundations compares trends and changes in dollars, subject area and location of grants and of grantmaker preferences in Minnesota in the last ten years.

This book is about the promise and power of the idea - the people and their programs. It is based largely on the individual and collective experience of six diverse urban school districts known as the League of Cities for the Arts in Education whose members are located in Hartford, Little Rock, Minneapolis, New York City, Seattle and Winston-Salem.

This article reports on the renowned, contemporary Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota which provides area teens with creative opportunities through an outreach program that now serves as a model for America's cultural institutions.

This article focuses on a recently released task force report which found that approximately one-third of St. Paul, Minnesota's arts organizations are operating in the red and to get healthy, these nonprofit groups need an additional $25 million. To close the budget gaps, the task force suggested that the nonprofits use several approaches.

The St. Paul Artists and the Aging program was carried out under the guidance of COMPAS - Community Programs in the Arts and Sciences - and was made possible by a grant from the Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Grant #90-A-348/01). COMPAS is the agency of the St. Paul Council of Arts and Science charged with bringing arts and science programs to the greater St. Paul community.

The research described in this Monograph is drawn from an in-depth study of the growth and decline of nonprofit organizations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota. The research project began in 1980 with a survey of 229 nonprofits there.

This report, prepared by the Illinois Arts Alliance, investigates the design, implementation, and funding of arts education policy in ten states.

This report summarizes findings from a McKnight Foundations study which examined the impact of the arts on the community and economic health of eight rural Minnesota towns.

This report examines the prospects of developing a regional arts plan for Minnesota.

This project was undertaken to gather information about the Guthrie Theatre audience - to find out: from where they came; their age; their sex; their marital status; how many husbands and wives attended performances together; their occupation; their formal education; their attendance at other plays and events in the Twin Cities area; their degree of satisfaction with the performances seen; how many of the four plays they expected to see before the season closed.

This issue of Monographs will examine the ways in which community arts organizations can make use of literary programming to reach new audiences.

This document includes samples of legislation from Denver, Colorado - Scientific/Cultural Facilities District (SCFD); St. Paul, Minnesota; St. Louis, Missouri; Salt Lake City, Utah; the state of Pennsylvania; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Miami, Florida that allows for the arts to benefit from sales taxes.

Access to Minnesota arts programs is near universal (99%) for all schools. 92% of elementary, 77% of middle, and 49% of high-school students participate in at least one arts area in one year, with music and visual arts having the highest enrollments. 92% of schools use licensed arts teachers as the primary provider of music and visual arts instruction, and 87% of schools have aligned their curriculum with the state arts standards. Additionally, 93% of schools reported providing students field trips to museums, theatres, music performances, and exhibitions. Although Minnesota has some of the

Minnesota Council on Foundations published Giving in Minnesota, 2010 Edition, which features information on overall giving in 2008, which includes data from the fiscal years of Minnesota foundations and corporate giving programs that end between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009. This is the summary report of their findings. Also available are a Summary and a collection of fact sheets which are available from the Minnesota Council on Foundations website (http://www.mcf.org).

Minnesota Council on Foundations published Giving in Minnesota, 2010 Edition, which features information on overall giving in 2008, which includes data from the fiscal years of Minnesota foundations and corporate giving programs that end between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009. This is the full report of their findings. Also available are a Summary and a collection of fact sheets which are available from the Minnesota Council on Foundations website (http://www.mcf.org).

Minnesota Council on Foundations published Giving in Minnesota, 2010 Edition, which features information on overall giving in 2008, which includes data from the fiscal years of Minnesota foundations and corporate giving programs that end between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009. This is a one page fact sheet summarizing their findings. Also available are a Summary and a collection of fact sheets which are available from the Minnesota Council on Foundations website (http://www.mcf.org).

Many states have created arts-based economic development strategies to support rural communities across the who are confronting economic development issues.

Case study prepared by Joan Channick under the direction of Benjamin Mordecai. Intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. The emergence of regional theater in the United States is illustrated by a recounting of the history, development and current operations of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A new study from the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, "Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on Artists, Neighborhoods, and Economies," shows that Minnesota's strong creative economy owes much of its success to the unusual number and quality of dedicated gathering spaces for artists in Minnesota. The study profiles 22 arts centers and individual artists.

The McKnight Foundation presents their second book about suburban cultural development in the Twin Cities.

The amended and restated bylaws of Compas, Inc. outlines the structure, procedure and laws of governance for all members of the Board of Directors. Included are the detailed procedures and policies pertaining to meetings procedures, members and officers, and committees.

Saint Paul, Minnesota [population: 983,000] is one of the 33 communities, ranging in population from 8,500 to 2.5 million, included in this three year study. The study examined data from 789 nonprofit organizations in order to compile a national average. The study was designed to document nonprofit arts expenditures in a cross section of American communities and demonstrate the economic impact gained from investing in the arts.

This book - the result of a year-long examination of the arts in Minnesota that included an evaluation of The McKnight Foundation's own program - explores the fruitful interdependence of life and art in this state. By sharing the results of our examination, we hope to celebrate one of Minnesota's most valuable resources as well as stimulate discussion about its future. The book's introduction outlines this resource and the broad challenges affecting the health of the arts in Minnesota.

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The Minnesota Council on Foundations presented its first report on the current state of the arts, culture, and humanities in Minnesota. Results of the report are from personal interviews with the states largest grantmakers and nonprofits. The report is based on personal thought and expression rather than hard data.